Lifting for legacy: The mini cranes playing a part in historic renovations
27 January 2025
With increasing pressure on construction teams to renovate and re-use buildings rather than demolishing them in order to reduce carbon emissions and waste, construction teams are increasingly finding a need for small, nippy cranes to get into tight corners. Lucy Barnard finds out how a mini crawler crane helped turn one of the UK’s most historic government offices into a super luxury hotel.
As the building where former British prime minister Winston Churchill masterminded the Battle of the Bulge and Lord Kitchener organised troops for World War I, the Old War Office building in London’s Whitehall is packed with fixtures and furnishings of a unique historic value.
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